We are looking for food businesses and individuals with a passion for REAL food and drink to join us in entering our NEW competitions on 20th August 2011, where we are seeking to find the best food in Ludlow and The Marches. You don't need to be a professional to enter but you do need to be passionate about your ingredients and use natural local ingredients wherever possible! Click here to see details and click here to download entry forms.
SATURDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER
LUDLOW SAUSAGE TRAIL
Britain's most amazing food event!
Start from 9.30am to 2pm Saturday only
Tickets £3.50 each available on the day (only) from the Festival Box Office near the entrance to the castle. Tickets may also be available from Ludlow's butchers shops during the week leading up to the Festival.
No sausages served after 3pm.
Price includes sausage in a bread roll from the Festival Sausage Stall by the castle on completion of the trail. Ticket/voting forms with full instructions available from 9.30 am on the day from the Festival Information Stall near the castle entrance. Some are also available from the butchers in advance (personal callers only). Numbers are limited to 2,000.
Explore Ludlow and visit its celebrated independent butchers, who are each making their own recipes for the Festival Sausage of the Year. At each butcher's shop, taste the sausage and award it points out of ten.
The sausage with the most points wins the 'People's Choice' award, with an 'Experts' Choice' award to be judged by a special panel at 4pm at the Festival Sausage Stall. Results will be announced at around 4.30 pm on Saturday, the awards will be presented in the castle from 2.15pm on Sunday.
WAITERS RACE
Saturday, 3pm, starts by the Castle entrance
This year you first have to race round some of the pubs in the town centre and then your professionalism is tested to the utmost when you try to satisfy some very odd customers in the shape of the Old Dic Theatre Company. Speed, agility and service are all tested in this tongue-in-cheek take on waiters' service. All waiters and waitresses are welcome to join the race - please phone us on 01584 873957.
THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND
REAL ALE TRAIL
sponsored by Wye Valley Brewery
Saturday and Sunday, during pub opening times (trail finishes 4pm Sunday)
Entry form £6.50 from the Festival Box Office (by the castle entrance), on sale from Friday at 4pm.
- Map showing suggested trail route, list of participating pubs and bars, tasting notes, marking card.
- Free souvenir 90 ml tasting tankard
- Free taste of qualifying real ale in each outlet
- Free bottle of ale to entrants completing the trail
Full instructions and information on the ticket. Expect to visit 12 pubs or more, and a brewery. Award each beer marks out of 10 to vote for the People's Choice Festival Ale of the Year. There is also an Experts Choice, which will be judged at on Saturday afternoon by a panel of 'experts'.
Please note: Age 18 or over only. Do not drink and drive.
